Quotes with sophistication

  • I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

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  • Bill Budge Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
    Bill Budge
    American video game programmer and designer (1954 - )
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  • Hal Borland For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is.
    Hal Borland
    American author, journalist and naturalist
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  • Norman Mailer Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle.
    Norman Mailer
    American writer (1923 - 2007)
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  • Christopher Hampton I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Bill Ackman If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story.
    Bill Ackman
    American investor (1966 - )
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  • James Thurber It takes that je ne sais quoi which we call sophistication for a woman to be magnificent in a drawing-room when her faculties have departed but she herself has not yet gone home.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • James Thurber Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband).
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Carlo Ratti The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • George Santayana The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Don Herold There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Bill Conti There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
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  • Bryan Fuller With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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